They're down a goal. They came to count. There he got there, touchdown. Cousins utter center, he's a yard. Cousin sneaks and he is in the backfield. I don't think he got it. I don't think he got at the risk backfires on Minnesota. The Redskins take over with the ball in field goal range, second out of six, Askins too high. McLaren was wide open, but Anthony Harris gets the interception, and that's the pot for the rookie as he missed a wide open target. And there you have it.
Dwayne Haskins throws the interception and the Vikings just kind of coast from there. In nineteen to nine win on Thursday night football in Minneapolis, a game where you didn't get a lot of fireworks, but you did get a very good, steady Kirk Cousins performance. Only three incomplete passes, and Dalvin Cook continued to do Dalvin Cook things. Nine yards on the ground and a touchdown seventy three yards on five catches through the air. So he continues to
build an m v P resume. Um Vikings get it done. Not pretty, but they get it done. Dan Hands is here joined by the great Quiet Storm Mark Sessler here in the Throwback Pod Studios garage. What's up, Buddy, Well, once again I occupied the seat that Bob Castrone normally sits in. And I feel because now now in this situation, he's only mere feet away from me in the flesh. Uh, somewhat intimidated by the fact that the two of you
are waiting for me just to leave. I think, well, no, because, as we talked about on the Thursday preview show, you will be sitting in on all New Throwback Podcast talking about love songs of your your yester years. That's true, I mean, and you know, and I guess so that I'm more excited about that than this game, which was boring a f as you should be. And you're showing
more trust in me. Then Bill Callahan showed in Dwayne Haskins, who was allowed to throw the ball five times in this game, and there's a clear like divide between the coaching staff wanting Haskins to play and maybe anyone else in the organization wanting to see more from him. The Redskins, basically, if you get up on them by a touchdown, they
will do nothing to challenge you. The Vikings, what do they do They just stood their own basically, and they and Kirk Cousins twenty three, twenty six a clean game, a game that we normally would not be doing a breakout broadcast on. I would say, if it if it took place at ten am West Coast California time, well, you presented yourself on Sunday as the what trap game consultant or it was something along those lines. Yeah, and
this was a classic trap game for the Viking. Yes it was, because, yeah, I have a home cookie against the Red Redskins and then trap game monitor, I believe, which I like quite a bit. It's not then you go to Arrowhead next week, then you go to Jaral World after that, so and you're on a short week, obviously on Thursday night football. So maybe in retrospect we
should have saw this coming. I wouldn't said that the Vikings played poorly, but they were a little flat and they didn't put a bad team away, which is what Washington is. And you know, I don't want to pile on Haskins because again, everything we hear, and we talked about this earlier this week, why isn't this guy playing that in today's football? First round pick should be playing by now if the team's going nowhere, but he's not
because they don't think he's ready. Well, now, hey, kid, uh come out of the tunnel at halftime and go beat the Vikings defense in Minneapolis where they really don't lose. So it's not like we're expecting a lot from Haskins. And like you said, he plays two quarters and throws five passes in a game they're trailing um. So obviously they didn't have a lot of faith in him at
this point. And I think in a game that didn't have a lot of highlights, the play of the game was the Vikings go for it on fourth and short in their own territory in the third quarter. They don't get it done, they don't convert. I didn't love that call. It was gutsy, but you know, they did what they did. And then the first play, Haskins has a wide open receiver over the middle. McLaurin scary Terry. Is that is
that the nickname that works for me? I'm not sure that if you are actually him, are you signing off on that nickname? Not? Probably somewhere that he did sign off on it, almost reluctantly, right, because when you're well, if I'm him, I would I would hold out a bit. But if he if he's okay with that, good for him. But he throws high to Scary Terry goes off his fingertips intercepted and that was kind of that was kind
of the end. Uh in terms of the game. That it was a seven point game at that point and it ends up a ten point when the Vikings went deep into Red Skins sterritory late in the game. It could have been more. I'm sure people that are connected to the desert would have liked to see that, but they did not in terms of getting more points. So big takeaways from me, and this is not a game to dwell on. But Dalvin Cook, he is the NFL leader now, uh in yards from scrimmage, and he showed
it again. I think he's a guy to keep an eye on. Here is I loved. I don't care what time of year it is. I love talking M v P. And I think Russell Wilson is the leader in the clubhouse. I think Christian McCaffrey's right there obviously. Um. I think Lamar Jackson has gotten himself in the race. But Dalvin Cook is a guy. If you're gonna be talking about CMC, gotta be talking about d say. I have no problem
with that. I I'm glad that you added Lamar Jackson because if you look at that Ravens team, I'm not sure where they are if you put a aging plug in play veteran quarterback in there, a Joe Flacco as even a younger Joe flaccoesque character, because Lamar Jackson still unstoppable. If you're the Vikings right now, you're six and two. Let's say that you go eleven and five or twelve and four and you're not the most impressive twelve and
four team of all time. I'm fine with that. If you're Minnesota, you're gonna have a few games like this. And if you're the Redskins, and if you're a fan of the Redskins, you must pray for change, because I will harp on these teams that leave their fan bases completely stuck in a quagmire where there you feel powerless at quagmire is a quagmire, I go quagmire, But I will ask Bob cost how do you are a quagmire?
Quag it is I think he's gone right down the middle with that, He's gone right down the middle Redskins fans who I think have been a little bit left left in our official Quagmire. He's just gonna agree with you, though, isn't he, Because that's how this is. He's from the same town, so has the same inflection. That's true, I'm not that. Actually, what what would shock viewers or listeners is that I grew up about eighteen miles away from you. I'm Mark Cessler. My favorite words, I said quagmire, I
believe he said. I mean, there is no there is absolutely no chance that we're trying to fill minutes here with with this type of content to get out of this game review. If I'm a Redskins fan, you have the right to revolt. I'm not sure where that's going to accomplish in America at this point. I'm not sure even where you go to revolt, But you have a right to be anoint to the streets. Get into the streets because this has been an absolutely disastrous campaign piled
on top of additional disaster. Right so you're one in seven after the game, what else do we need to say? Bill Callahan, the interim coach, and it's also was reported earlier today that he is a very real candidate to keep the job. So is right, please, because he's surging. Now, listen to the wording here this. I got this from John kim Over at ESPN. It's a kim bomb. He said he's not sure yet. Callahan said he's not sure yet. Who will start at quarterback against the Bills. He said,
if case Keenum is healthy, he will start. If Keenam can't play because of the concussion, concussion, so it is a concussion. Uh, then rookie Dwayne Haskins would start and Colt McCoy would back him up. So Haskins is officially, you know, ahead of McCoy. I guess we knew that already, but he's not ready to turn it over yet. Um. And I guess one other Redskins note, And that was a nice moment and an otherwise dull game, Adrian Peterson at the two minute warning, you know, in his homecoming
in Minneapolis. Um, they showed on the scoreboard and got a loud over ovation. Nice job by the Vikings fans. That's a good fan base. They get it. Uh, they give him a big ovation. He said he was holding back tears. And you know, I'm tracking this very closely.
I mean, Adrian Peterson, what does he want on a day, on a day that he moved I believed to sixth all time um in terms of rushing, but he wants that Walter Payton record and I want it for I'll tell you what, sixth place on the career rushing list. Is it possible that you are tracking this more closely than Adrian Peterson in terms of a game by game. The reason I'm trying so closely because I am absolutely convinced he has no interest in the Washington Redskins or
their success or plight. It's all about getting those numbers and he's getting fitted for that jacket and that's fine. He's done a lot in this league. Um My last point, Mark, they showed a graphic on Fox and we are in that time of season where we must praise Joe Buck for the incredibly work work he's doing for Major League Baseball and the NFL. Incredible what a talent, I mean, am I? But it should he not be? What's our angle here? Because no, it should be, But it's it's
it's becoming. It's becoming an NFL trope of late October. It certainly has, and he you know, it's nice if you have the power to create a trope the way he has. I think it's just it's a couda ta of sorts for him to go from someone that is you know, uniformly uh shot down and destroyed by most people for being a little too hotty totty with his Randy Moss showed the butt scenario to this where now he's as he should be. I think praised for being the last have been very good for Buck in his image.
And that's and that's including he put out the memoir right where he admitted that his hairline was going so he in a procedure to put in some type of hair plug. It led to his vocal cords getting frozen, which is led to major, you know, career threatening side effects. You would think that would stick with him like a scarlet letter, and I'm glad it didn't. He was very open about it, and he also tried to move units
of his book with it. That's true. I mean you would think the Joey Bucks, Yeah, you think that might not make it into a memoir also, but then, but you know what, just a lack of content, right, You've got to move the books. Um. But what I was gonna say is in the Fox telecast, which is simulcast across NFL, speaking of working with our you know r
D content performs. Um, there was a graphic that that Washington coaching staff during the run of Jake Ruden had the flower out on it, Matt Lafleur, it had Kyle Shanahan on it, It had Sean McVeigh on it, and it did make me. It got me thinking that because we talked about how Andy Dalton won, you know, um,
he is obviously the dualt line. And what's what's worse to have a quarterback who instantly flames out, a Manzelle type or a guy that you can't decide and half a decade, most of a decade passes and then you decide to move on, which is Andy Dalton, is Jay
Gruden the Andy Dalton of head coaches. While they while the Washington Redskins kind of kept their foot halfway in and halfway out for years and years, they had all these young superstars potentially waiting in the wings to be the next guy and they and they just let it go. Does that make like La Fleur, Deshaun Watson and Kyle Shanahan Baker Mayfield and Sean McVeigh um, Patrick Mahomes. That's an excellent well, I would I would say that's analysis
baby on a Thursday night. That is. That is and I would I would suggest that if anything, the Redskins, maybe the Andy Dalt, the franchise is to not notice some of those issues as well. But I would say the j Gruten coaching tree is strong, the Jake that his tree is a strong tree. That I mean the brand, the trunk of the tree. It could be questioned whether or not with the rot situation. That's fair. It's one of those trees that just you know, it's a little bit,
it's in your backyard. It's a hard tree to figure out. All right. Any other thoughts before we uh say goodbye? I really I am quite impressed with us to stretch this. Where where are we with the minutes at this point where twelve minutes in? I would like you now if you if you have a minute to dish into your final thoughts on Joe Flacco just to top west from last week. I know that he went out, you know, he went out with a fiery limb on that. Where can you go with the Joe Flacco scenario. I mean,
Joe Flacco. I don't profess to be always right, but uh, and I was hardly alone on this, but I nailed it. Joe Flacco was never going to be a plus performer for the Denver Echoes, and we've seen that bear out in the first half of the twenty nineteen season. So
no apologies needed, no miya kulpa necessary. I just think now that we tweet this out as Dan's final thoughts on Joe Flacco, because if anything, let's just you know, uniformly completely copy but also use surrup last week's message and West you know, right on many things, but not on that. Okay, that's it. By the way, Stefon Diggs seven catches on seven targets for buck forty three. He's happy now lost a fumble. Uh and he leads the
NFL amongst wide receivers with fumbles. But yeah, who cares, uh somehow that's not part of his messaging in the locker room. All right, that's it. So we'll be back as a foursome on Sunday to recap the rest of the Week eight games, So make sure you come on back for the Flagship Show. Until then, play us out Dick Banks, the Flames sign it off and do something
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